Things that Slow Down your Time Zone Adjustment Now for the bad news. Three things that don’t help jet lag, and which may actually slow down the body’s adjusting process, are alcohol, caffeine and <font size="4">sleeping pills</font>. Sleeping pills will put you to sleep, but they don’t help restore the natural cycle of day and night, but rather use a ‘brute force’ approach that often leaves you feeling poorly rested when you wake up. And both alcohol and caffeine don’t help the body adjust to the new environment, but rather are more likely to slow your adjusting down. </p> http://www.thetravelinsider.info/2002/0517.htm</p>